If the first part of July is any indication of things to come, we may actually break our 11 month streak of below average precipitation. (Yes, it was a full year ago, in July, 2025, when we were above average for a month.) While the recent rain has helped to get the water levels up in the ponds, the precipitation did come at a cost. The smallest rain event yielded a meager 0.15" on Friday, July 3, but it caused some serious headaches.
We arrived on Saturday, July 4, to find damage from a lightning strike near #15 Laurel tee. This hit the tree in the background, blew an irrigation pipe out of the ground, caused electrical issues in the controllers throughout the course, and destroyed more than a dozen solenoids in sprinklers on #14 and 15.
Two nights later, the small irrigation controller at the Centerton Road entrance island took a hit, and blasted the PVC off the backflow preventer. While on a much smaller scale than the golf course, this repair also required both plumbing and electrical work.
One thing is for sure, summer in this region is never boring!
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